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THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
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CHAPTER 14
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Israel murmurs and speaks of returning to Egypt—Joshua and Caleb give a good report of Canaan—Moses mediates between Israel and the Lord—Adults of Israel shall not enter promised land—The Lord slays false spies by a plague—Some rebels try to go alone and are slain by Amalekites and Canaanites.
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And</span> all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
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And all the children of Israel <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/2a" mark="a" type="C" title="Deut. 9: 23; TG Murmuring.">murmured</a> against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt!  or would God we had died in this wilderness!
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And wherefore hath the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey?  were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
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And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 13: 17 (17-18); Neh. 9: 17.">return</a> into Egypt.
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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
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&#182; And <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 13: 16.">Joshua</a> the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, <i>which were</i> of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
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And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, <i>is</i> an exceeding good land.
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If the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
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Only <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rebellion.">rebel</a> not ye against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they <i>are</i> bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> with us: <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Protection, Divine.">fear</a> them not.
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But all the congregation bade stone them with stones.  And the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 16: 10; Ex. 24: 16.">glory</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto Moses, How long will this people <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 63: 10; 1 Ne. 17: 30 (23-31); Jacob 1: 8; Alma 12: 37 (36-37); Hel. 7: 18.">provoke</a> me?  and how long will it be ere they <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Faith.">believe</a> me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
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I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 10.">nation</a> and mightier than they.
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&#182; And Moses said unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Then the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 12.">Egyptians</a> shall hear <i>it,</i> (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
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And they will tell <i>it</i> to the inhabitants of this land: <i>for</i> they have heard that thou <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>art</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Presence of.">among</a> this people, that thou <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> art seen face to face, and <i>that</i> thy <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 99: 7; D&C 84: 5.">cloud</a> standeth over them, and <i>that</i> thou <sup>c</sup><a href="num/14/14c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 33: 16.">goest</a> before them, by day time in a <sup>d</sup><a href="num/14/14d" mark="d" type="A" title="Deut. 1: 33.">pillar</a> of a <sup>e</sup><a href="num/14/14e" mark="e" type="A" title="Num. 10: 34.">cloud</a>, and in a pillar of fire by night.
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&#182; Now <i>if</i> thou shalt kill <i>all</i> this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
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Because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
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And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 86: 15."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> <i>is</i> longsuffering, and of great mercy, <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Forgiveness.">forgiving</a> iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing <i>the guilty,</i> visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth <i>generation.</i>
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Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
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But <i>as</i> truly <i>as</i> I live, all the earth shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 72: 19; D&C 65: 2.">filled</a> with the glory of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Miracles.">miracles</a>, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Test, Try, Prove.">tempted</a> me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
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Surely they shall not <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 32: 11 (11-12); Jacob 1: 7 (7-8); D&C 84: 24 (23-25).">see</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/23b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 5: 6.">land</a> which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that <sup>c</sup><a href="num/14/23c" mark="c" type="A" title="Heb. 3: 8 (7-11, 15).">provoked</a> me see it:
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But my servant <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 13: 30.">Caleb</a>, because he had another spirit with him, and hath <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/24b" mark="b" type="C" title="Josh. 14: 8 (6-8); TG Commitment.">followed</a> me fully, him will I <sup>c</sup><a href="num/14/24c" mark="c" type="A" title="Josh. 14: 10.">bring</a> into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
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(Now the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 13: 29.">Amalekites</a> and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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How long <i>shall I bear with</i> this evil congregation, which <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 16: 12.">murmur</a> against me?  I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
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Say unto them, <i>As truly as</i> I live, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
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Your <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Heb. 3: 17.">carcases</a> shall fall in this <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 26: 65; Ezek. 20: 13 (13, 15).">wilderness</a>; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
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Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, <i>concerning</i> which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
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But <i>as for</i> you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
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And your children shall wander in the wilderness <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 95: 10; Amos 2: 10.">forty</a> years, and <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/33b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR suffer for your faithlessness.">bear</a> your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
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After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, <i>even</i> forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, <i>even</i> forty years, and ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/34a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB feel my displeasure.">know</a> my breach of promise.
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I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 2: 14 (14-15).">die</a>.
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And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
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Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/37a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 10: 10.">died</a> by the <sup>b</sup><a href="num/14/37b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Plagues.">plague</a> before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, <i>which were</i> of the men that went to search the land, lived <i>still.</i>
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And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/39a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 33: 4.">mourned</a> greatly.
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&#182; And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we <i>be here,</i> and will go up unto the place which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath promised: for we have <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/40a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 1: 41.">sinned</a>.
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And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?  but it shall not prosper.
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Go not up, for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/43a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 13: 29.">Amalekites</a> and the Canaanites <i>are</i> there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, therefore the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will not be with you.
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But they <sup>a</sup><a href="num/14/44a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 1: 43.">presumed</a> to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
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Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, <i>even</i> unto Hormah.
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